About the project

NBRACER unites different Demonstrating Regions and Replicating Regions along the Atlantic Biographical Area, each with unique characteristics in physical and social landscapes. The demonstrating regions are Cantabria (Spain), Central Denmark, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France), Porto Municipality (Portugal) and West-Flanders (Belgium), while the replicating regions are Cávado (Spain), East Flanders (Belgium), and Provincie Fryslân (The Netherlands). With a Nature-based Solutions (NBS) perspective, it sets a baseline and provides new insights and actions to progress the regional journey to resilience.

The project, funded by the European Union under the EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change, aims to:

• upscale co-designed place-based sustainable NBS that are in harmony with the regional landscapes into coherent regional packages and
• build time- and place-specific adaptation pathways integrating local and regional solutions.

This process is supported by a regional effort to build adaptation journeys with community support, with input from teams testing and validating place-based NBS solution portfolios situated in landscapes. Innovative technical and adaptation transformation support packages will provide quantitative mapping methods and a transformative action approach. The project will enable capacity building and networking to scale the solutions and build connections.

Coordinated by Deltares, the consortium builds synergy from the strength of practitioners, ecosystem engineers, innovators of transformative adaptation, finance, and capacity building experts.

NBRACER utilises innovation expertise, processes, and methodologies in partnership with regions to enable transformational changes in three distinct landscapes – marine and coastal, urban, and rural. The NBRACER capacity building programme comprises the following pillars, dervied in part from the UbN integrated management cyclical approach to support the implementation of NbS: